Whistleblowers Remain Unprotected as Government Fails to Implement Promised Reforms
As Australian musicologist Professor Peter Tregear testified during a 12 August 2025 Senate inquiry hearing into governance at universities, and specifically in respect to his time as head of the Australian National University (ANU) School of Music, he made clear...
NSW Government Tightens Working With Children Checks
The New South Wales government is enacting laws which aim to prevent individuals who are seen as posing a risk to the safety of children from working in child-related employment. The enabling law - known as the Child Protection (Working...
Government Claims Attorney General Can’t Reverse Decision to Extradite Dan Duggan
Former Australian attorney general Mark Dreyfus signed off on the process of Washington’s attempt to extradite Australian citizen Daniel Duggan in late 2022, and he provided the final greenlight last December, following the NSW Local Court having approved extradition. Yet,...
New Road Rules and Driving Offences Coming Into Effect Across Australia
A suite of new traffic laws were introduced on 1 August 2025 which will relate to a range of road rules and traffic offences. More than 60 amendments are being made to a number of pieces of legislation, including the...
Envoy Pressures Australia to Adopt a Fraudulent Antisemitism Definition
Despite noisy outcry from his party’s rank-and-file members, Labor prime minister Anthony Albanese is continuing to consider Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal’s plan to do just that, which at its core, would result in the IHRA working...
The Disconnect Between the Antisemitism Moral Panic and Melbourne’s Nazis on Parade
The National Socialist Network (NSN) again paraded through city streets last weekend. This time, however, the footage of the black clad white Australian men shows a more formidable procession than ever before, with more than a hundred white supremacists on...
NSW Police Officer’s Casual Assault on First Nations Woman Highlights Systemic Issue
Footage capturing yet another incident revealing the casual callous violence with which NSW police officers regularly approach First Peoples has gone viral. The 22 July 2025 incident involves an officer approaching Aboriginal woman Jaleenah Collins unawares from behind and forcefully...
“We Are Way Out of Time”: Women from XR Victoria Protesting for Two Years Warn Social Collapse Imminent
A group of women from Extinction Rebellion (XR) Victoria marked the two year anniversary of their ongoing weekly protest demonstration last Friday, 8 August 2025, as they continued to call for Australian governments to act on climate. And as usual...
Racial and Religious Vilification Complaint Lodged Against Australian Jewish Association
A vilification complaint has been lodged this week against the Australian Jewish Association (AJA) with Anti-Discrimination NSW by Sydney law firm Birchgrove Legal on behalf of Palestinian Muslim man Kassem Chalabi, which involves some of the organisation’s social media posts...
The Envoy’s Proposal to Adopt the IHRA Antisemitism Definition Is a Threat to Free Speech
The suggestion is that the Albanese government is now contemplating the draconian plan that it’s so-called “antisemitism expert” put on the table a month ago, which includes as it centrepiece the recommendation that the nation adopt a definition of antisemitism...
